Sprawlopolis BGG ↗

My BGG Comment

I've played a bunch of solo games which are a lot of fun. We've also played 2 games with 4 people which were even more fun. It's a quick and easy to grasp/hard to master game that can serve as aperitif or digestif for a longer game night. I tend to play a round during my lunchbreak as well. 2026 After 106 plays. This was one of my early Crowdfunding experiments and since this one turned out so well, I backed a lot of other experimental small games most of which disappointed me. This game is great. The 3 goals pulling you in different directions, trying to get few roads and building bigger blocks and... every game is different. Getting such replay value with this tiny a game: an incredible feat. In the whole franchise this spawned, this remains my favorite not least because I know all the goals and how they play out and still don't always win. Some goal combinations are definitely easier than others. I also tend to just play and start optimizing only on the final cards. Still a game can last surprisingly long given how there are only 14 turns (18 - 3 goals - 1st card) It is also so satisfying to build this little city, I have so many photos of finished cities. It's just a special little game I often take with me on trips as well. The cards are starting to show some wear and I am surprised the plastic wallet is still in one piece. I have quite a few expansions but I usually play with out them. Of the ones I tried, Beaches seems the best. Rating 10

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• 2026: Yashima's Game Diary
  This was one of my early Crowdfunding experiments and since this one turned out so well, I backed a lot of other experimental small games most of which disappointed me. This game is great. The 3 goals pulling you in different directions, trying to get few roads and building bigger blocks and... every game is different. Getting such replay value with this tiny a game: an incredible feat. In the whole franchise this spawned, this remains my favorite not least because I know all the goals and how they play out and still don't always win. Some goal combinations are definitely easier than others. I also tend to just play and start optimizing only on the final cards. Still a game can last surprisingly long given how there are only 14 turns (18 - 3 goals - 1st card) It is also so satisfying to build this little city, I have so many photos of finished cities. It's just a special little game I often take with me on trips as well. The cards are starting to show some wear and I am surprised the plastic wallet is still in one piece. I have quite a few expansions but I usually play with out them. Of the ones I tried, Beaches seems the best. * Player Count: 1 * My current rating: * Total Lifetime Plays: 106 * Rules Retention: Easy. Very few rules. Could teach it if I were willing to play this other than solo. * Keeper: Definitely. It's so addictive. * Recommended: For fans of traveling with games and tile laying. * Competition: Other Polis games (franchise), Grove (overlapping tiles, goals), Trailblazers (overlapping tiles, goals), Cascadia (building your terrain is much like building your city, it produces something I often like to photograph)
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  An old favorite that still holds up incredibly well 100+ games later. The wallet size makes it possible to take anywhere. It does need a flat surface although not a very large one.
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  The OG, my first travel solo
• Travel: Griechenland
  I probably don’t need a 2nd polis game on a given trip. ut this one has the beach expansion
• Yashima‘s 2024 Top 20 Solo Games
  Apparently--at the moment--not even my favorite tile laying game. But my favorite travel game. This entry also includes Naturopolis which I like almost as much as Sprawlopolis. Agropolis never really worked out for me for some reason (of course I have that one, too). I rarely play with expansions though this year I finally got the Beaches and enjoyed a few games with that one. I have quite a few plays of this and it is still never boring. This was one of those „let‘s just back this kickstarter, it is not expensive“ things that really worked out well. It is probably to blame for me backing a whole bunch of small city building games none of which I really enjoyed because none of them could live up to the brilliance of this one. This just switched places with Cascadia. And I admit I have a hard time deciding which one I like better at any given moment. Solo Plays 2024: 26 Ranking last year: 3 (🔻1)
• Yashima’s 2022 Top 20 Solo Games
  #3 If I had made this list since 2018, this game would have been in my Top 5 solo games every single year. Variable setup, a bit of route building, tile laying, city building… some of my favorite things. What‘s not to love? And for some reason it never gets old to me. I can play this over and over and over… This is the game that made me seek out a huge variety of other small games to be played solo but I found none that came even close (I have Agropolis and I have preordered Naturopolis but the original is still best). The game is so small, setup so quick, gameplay so easy and my scores vary wildly. Some goals of course are much harder than others but every single game I ever played has been satisfying—even the ones I lost. I am still looking for small games that can compete with this.

Owned Expansions

• Sprawlopolis: Wrecktar
• Sprawlopolis: Points of Interest
• Sprawlopolis: Construction Zones
• Sprawlopolis: Beaches
• Combopolis
• Combopolis II
• Combopolis: Expansion Collection